Macbook pro constantly logs me out

Why does my MacBook pro retina Lion constantly log me out closing all my apps without warning? I have all powersave features turned off and I'm plugged into the wall. All I see the console monitor are these two problems.
10/7/12 9:08:21.333 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.517: (com.hp.devicemonitor[2841]) posix_spawn("/Library/Printers/hp/hpio/HP Device Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/HP Device Monitor", ...): No such file or directory
or
10/7/12 9:08:22.274 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.517: (com.akamai.single-user-client[2842]) posix_spawn("/Users/XXXXX/Applications/Akamai/netsession_mac", ...): No such file or directory
where XXXXX is my old login name from my old macbook pro that I migrated to the new machine and for some reason the new machine has my middle initial in it
In a potentially unrelated matter I will also get much less frequent crashes where the laptop shuts completely off - and there are panics in the console log
Any help would be appreciated

Post the most recent panic report.

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